Midnight Confessions

The Fingerprint That Lied

Episode Summary

In 1995, Seattle's most advanced forensic lab matched a partial print to construction worker Miguel Santos, sending him to death row for the brutal murder of a convenience store clerk. Twenty-three years later, a rookie technician's lunch break discovery would expose a flaw so fundamental it called thousands of convictions into question—and revealed how the very science we trust most can become our greatest betrayal.